1So I'm back with a new fic. This will more than likely end up having a female/female couple so if that bothers you don't read this.
Disclaimer: I don't own OTH or the characters.
Tomorrow. Manana. Tomorrow she would start the rest of her life with the man she loved. For the first time in her 20 years of life everything was going the way it should be. She wasn't involved in a love triangle from hell, she wasn't dating a teenage father, she had no dying mama drama, and she finally had her best friend back.
She turned her head to look at the clock on the bedside table in her hotel room: 3:30 blinked in red. In fifteen and a half hours she would be Mrs. Nathan Scott. She shook her head and laughed to herself at the thought. If you had asked her in high school, she would have never guessed that she would end up with the dark headed Scott brother. The blonde jack ass maybe but never in a million years would she have guessed the tall blue eyed boy she first dated way back in freshman year. She sighed and turned over on her side trying to get her head to hush so she could get a few more hours of sleep. It was her wedding day and she would not have bags under her eyes as she walked with her father down the aisle.
She woke up at 10:30 and couldn't help the smile that spread across her face as she opened her eyes. She got up and walked toward the window and looked out over the beach that would be the setting of her wedding in a few hours. Peyton was thrilled that everything had worked out so she and Nathan could get married on the beach like they had hoped. It wasn't that money was a problem but their schedules had been a pain. But here she was on the white sand beaches of Hawaii.
Peyton spent the day like most brides do on their wedding day. She got her hair, make up, and nails done with her two best friends: Haley and Brooke. They gossiped and told stories from high school and the recent past. All three were very shocked how everything was finally falling into place. Peyton was the first of the three to be getting married which was something none of them had expected and her husband to be was an even bigger shock. The two had gotten closer after Ellie had passed away their senior year in high school and ended up at the same college. They clicked again and it had been smooth sailing from there.
"It's amazing," Haley said. "Who would have thought that you two would be getting married?"
"Not me," Peyton said with a slight shrug. "It's actually partly because of you," she said smiling at the shorter girl. "You really did change him into a better person Hales. I'll always love you for that."
"Well that's what I'm for." Haley said smiling back. The three girls looked in the mirror and smiled. Peyton in the middle in her white satin informal wedding dress with a girl on each side with matching white dresses with light blue sashes.
"Thanks you guys...for everything." Peyton said looking back and forth between her friends.
"You're welcome," the girls said in unison. Haley and Brooke then excused themselves to go check on things and to leave Peyton alone for a while until the ceremony started.
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She paced outside of the door that held her future and her past. She couldn't believe she was about to do what she was about to do. On today of all days. She pulled her small cell phone out of her small clutch to check the time: 6:30. In 30 minutes the girl of her dreams was going to marry her high school sweetheart and now she had to decide if she was going to tell her what she'd be wanting to say since high school or to keep it to herself for the rest of time. Back and forth she walked trying to make up her mind.
She tried to talk herself out of it. Telling herself that all those kisses in high school were nothing. That the summer after senior year was just an experiment. But how could she convince herself that it was nothing more than childish fun when her heart told her that it was something so much more.
Before she could fully understand what she was doing she stopped pacing and knocked on the door. The door opened and she stood there stunned looking at the blonde beauty that was smiling at her.
"Come in," Peyton said ushering the girl in.
Brooke walked in the door looking down at the ground nervously. Peyton looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "What's up Brooke?" She asked in the tone that Brooke knew to mean, 'don't say nothing because I know you're lying.'
Brooke kicked herself silently for making it so obvious that she had something on her mind. Because now even if she wanted to she couldn't chicken out because Peyton, being Peyton, wouldn't buy it in the least. Brooke looked up into Peyton's beautiful hazel eyes and her nervousness melted away and intensified all at the same time. She never would have believed that the feeling was possible but now she knew it was. She broke the eye contact and started pacing again.
Peyton looked on amused but decided she wanted answers sometime this century. "Brooke."
The short brunette stopped dead in her tracks. "Something is wrong." She mumbled.
"Well obviously," Peyton said trying to lighten the mood. "You don't normally pace just for fun."
Brooke smiled sheepishly and shrugged. "I just came from outside. Everything looks really beautiful." Brooke said trying desperately to change the subject.
"Brooke. Now." Peyton said giving her a look that would scare a Marine.
Brooke went back to her pacing realizing that there was no way she was getting out of this. "You can't marry him." She said barely above a whisper.
Peyton stood there looking at her confused. "Why not? And stop pacing you're making me dizzy."
Brooke stopped again this time not looking up. "You just can't. Can't we leave it at that?"
"Um..you come in here 20 minutes before my wedding, tell me I can't get married, and you don't want to give me a reason? No I'm sorry Brooke but we can't just leave it at that." Peyton responded a mixture of annoyance and amusement in her voice.
Brooke took a deep breath then answered. "You can't marry him because there's someone else. Someone else who is better for you, Peyton." She started walking a little closer her fear disappearing by the second. "Someone who knows you so much better." Peyton looked at her like she was crazy. "I...I love..."
Knock Knock.
"It's time." Haley said sticking her head in a big smile on her face.
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The sun was setting. The sky, a beautiful mixture of oranges, pinks, purples, and blues, was reflecting perfectly off of the considerable mellow ocean. Nathan stood by the minister dressed in khaki pants and a button down white shirt. His blue eyes reflecting all the happiness he felt on the inside.
He looked at his watch. Five minutes. He thought. Five minutes and my life will finally begin.
Tell me what you think. Should I keep going?
